We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.

The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.

Implications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the way questions are asked. In support of lines of questioning where cases of treason are cited and the Judge endorses the relevance of the citation.

I worry about images. Images are what things mean.